Bare Metal Post-Deployment – Running the Post-Deployment Automation and Bonus...
Earlier this week I introduced Ben Gelens and his blog series on Hyper-V Bare Metal Post-Deployment. Here is part 5, a continuation on the topic of Constructing the Post-Deployment automation. This...
View ArticleHyper-V Configuration Toolkit
Guest blog by Mark Scholman I have been working on a new script project to configure Hyper-V hosts. Every time I deploy new Hyper-V servers in a new customer environment, there are many things that...
View ArticleWin free tickets for Experts Live 2014!
Only forty days to go for the next Experts Live event! This year we have an amazing line up again with tracks about: Windows Server Azure Hyper-V System Center Office 365 PowerShell SQL More than forty...
View ArticleHyper-V NVGRE Gateway Toolkit
Hyper-V NVGRE Gateways are used to allow Virtual Networks in Hyper-V to connect to the internet or establish a VPN connection to the tenant’s on premise environment. An NVGRE Gateway Cluster is...
View ArticleUpdate Emulex VMQ Issue: They finally did it!
Another update from the VMQ front, this time with the formal announcement of a declaration of peace. After a very long struggle – which started in November 2013, not long after the release of Windows...
View ArticleAzure Pack – Recover from a disaster
This post is not talking about recovering from a failed data center or Azure Site recovery procedures. No, it’s just “simple” recovery when everything went down for whatever kind of reason. I mean, we...
View ArticleAzure Site Recovery with Hyper-V Generation 2 VM Support
The Azure team at Microsoft cannot be denied to run at a very high pace, when it comes to introducing new Azure functionality. Not only do public Azure features show up like clockwork every six weeks,...
View ArticleNested Hypervisor in Windows Server vNext
In his presentation at Build 2015 on Windows and Hyper-V Containers, Taylor Brown almost casually mentioned that in the next version of Windows Server, it will be possible to enable Hyper-V in a...
View ArticleLessons learned: DSC Pull Security and Integration with WAPack [DUPSUG]
Introduction Last Dutch PowerShell User Group (DUPSUG) on May 26th I presented a session on end-2-end Secure DSC Pull Services. The demo scripts can be found here:...
View ArticleVMM 2012 R2 UR7 – Issue NVGRE Gateways
Last week we implemented Update Rollup 7 for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2 at one of our customers. After implementation we experienced some strange issues on the NVGRE Gateway Cluster....
View ArticleAzure Stack – The Fabric Layer
With more and more details coming available on Microsoft Azure Stack we can see the direction Microsoft is taking and giving us a peek under the hood of Microsoft Azure itself. Azure Stack will be...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Hotfixes Update
Microsoft recently published a new list for the recommended hotfixes, updates, and known solutions for Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V environments. These are hotfixes specific to known problems that...
View ArticleHotfix Verifier for Windows Server 2012 R2 (Update)
Some three years ago I wrote a blog about how to quickly verify if your clustered Hyper-V host was conforming to the list of hotfixes as maintained by the Hyper-V and Cluster teams. The original blog...
View ArticleMicrosoft Ignite 2016 – Day 2
Another great day at Ignite, day 2. We first start with the global announcements, and after that deep-dives into the sessions Hans has visited. Microsoft Ignite Day 1 Microsoft Ignite Day 2 Microsoft...
View ArticleMicrosoft Ignite 2016: Day 2 – Discover what’s new with Windows Server 2016...
As a Hyper-V MVP, I definitely had to visit Ben Armstrong’s presentation on the novelties of Hyper-V in Windows Server 2016. I already had the pleasure of having dinner with Ben on Monday night, so I...
View ArticleMicrosoft Ignite 2016 Day 3 Dive into Microsoft Azure Stack Architecture...
Hall C1 can take 2,000 people and every one of them was present for Spencer Shepler’s Dive into Microsoft Azure Stack Architecture session. Azure Stack Integrated Systems First picture Spencer showed...
View ArticleMicrosoft Ignite 2016 – Day 4
The summary of Day 4, it seems like the announcement train is slowly coming to a stop.. Microsoft Ignite Day 1 Microsoft Ignite Day 2 Microsoft Ignite Day 3 Microsoft Ignite Day 4 Microsoft Ignite Day...
View ArticleComparing features in Windows Server versions
Microsoft published a guide to compare specific features of Windows Server versions to understand the differences between the version you are running today and the latest version available from...
View ArticleVMM 2012 R2 UR7 – Issue NVGRE Gateways
Last week we implemented Update Rollup 7 for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2 at one of our customers. After implementation we experienced some strange issues on the NVGRE Gateway Cluster....
View ArticleAzure Stack – The Fabric Layer
With more and more details coming available on Microsoft Azure Stack we can see the direction Microsoft is taking and giving us a peek under the hood of Microsoft Azure itself. Azure Stack will be...
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